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August 12th, 2009, 02:30 PM
8/12/2001:
Two-time French Open champion Gustavo “Guga” Kuerten of Brazil completes his rain-delayed semifinal match this morning against Tim Henman before making short work of Patrick Rafter, 6-1, 6-3, in the finals of the ATP-Masters tournament in Mason, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati. It’s only the third tourney Kuerten has ever won on a hard-court surface and the third straight tourney this summer in which Rafter has advanced to the finals and lost (Wimbledon and Montreal).
B I R T H D A Y S
Fred Hutchinson b. 1919
George McGinnis b. 1950
Pete Sampras b. 1971
Antoine Walker b. 1976
Plaxico Burress b. 1977
Two-time French Open champion Gustavo “Guga” Kuerten of Brazil completes his rain-delayed semifinal match this morning against Tim Henman before making short work of Patrick Rafter, 6-1, 6-3, in the finals of the ATP-Masters tournament in Mason, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati. It’s only the third tourney Kuerten has ever won on a hard-court surface and the third straight tourney this summer in which Rafter has advanced to the finals and lost (Wimbledon and Montreal).
B I R T H D A Y S
Fred Hutchinson b. 1919
George McGinnis b. 1950
Pete Sampras b. 1971
Antoine Walker b. 1976
Plaxico Burress b. 1977